Display carton



March 15, 193. c. L KANTY DISPLAY'CARTON Filed April 17, 1936 3 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTO are 15, 1938. c, KANTY DISPLAY CARTON Filed April 17, 1936 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 March 15, 1938. c. L. KANTY 2,110,934

DISPLAY CARTON Filed April 17, 1936 s Sheeis-Sheet 5 ll x10 INVENTOR Patented Mar. 15, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY CARTON Charles L. Kanty, Rochester, N. Y.

Application April 17, 1936, Serial No. 74,897

2 Claims.

My present invention relates to display devices and more particularly to display cartons, that is, structures made with the facilities of paper box manufacture and intended to act as con- ..5 tainers for transporting certain classes of articles in compact form but ultimately utilized to display them adequately and in an attractive manner, and the invention has for its general object to provide an improved device of this character that may be rapidly manufactured at low cost and used as toboth functions with efficiency and convenience. The improvements are directed in part toward features whereby a number of trays or inner individual containers may be shipped compactly along with the parts of the contained carton in knock-down form, a display stand constructed therefrom and the trays of articles inserted in the stand rapidly and without removing their contents. They are further directed to the means for locking the uprights of the display structure in position through the medium of the trays and toward means for counter-locking the trays themselves in place. To these and other ends, the invention resides in '5 certain improvements and combinations of parts,

all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a display carton constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention as set up for ultimate use;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same thing knocked down for shipping purposes;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken from front to rear through the carton, as in Fig. 2, packaged for shipment;

Fig. 4 is a vertical central section through the display carton in the condition of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the base container with the end pieces or uprights packed therein prior to the insertion of the trays shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view similar to that of Fig. 1, though from a different angle, showing the trays and the display carton removed;

Fig. '7 is a perspective view of one of the end pieces or uprights, detached, and

Fig. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary section taken on the line 88 of Fig. 4.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

The embodiment of my invention illustrated is such as might be utilized for the transportation and display of small articles, such as greeting cards, seed packages, etc., that require handling for selection by the purchaser and which it isdesired to ultimately display in an attractive manner permitting this. Referring more particularly to the drawings, l indicates a base container having thegeneral character of an open box and 2 indicates a plurality of individual containers that fit closely therein, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, for shipping purposes. In these containers are packed or arranged by groups the articles of merchandise in a manner that their character dictates so that they may be lifted out in sections by dislodging such individual trays. For shipping purposes, the base container so packed may be slid into a suitable tube or sleeve 3 of corrugated paper and further packed and sealed in the accustomed manner. Referring to Fig. 3, the idea is that the box will fit tightly within one portion of the wrapper 3 but leave a space 4 therein for the envelopes, cards or other goods as they project from their trays 2.

The super-structure of the display stand of Fig. 1 is contained and shipped within the base container l beneath the trays 2, as in Figs. 2 and 3, but it is necessary to firstdescribe these parts assembled. End support units, one of which is shown in detail in Fig. 7, each embody an end wall 5 of general triangular shape with its front edge receding at an angle and an inner wall 6 spaced therefrom. The inner wall is provided with a plurality of stepped shoulders l which with their adjacent risers 8 constitute a tier of seats. The walls are connected at the front in spaced parallel relationship: by a short Wall 9 and at the 35 rear by a high wall III which rises above the top seat I for a purpose hereinafter explained. In the present instance, all of these walls are shown made from a single paper blank scored at points H, l2, l3, and Hi to constitute hinges, an end 40 flap being finally provided at l5 to be glued or otherwise attached back on the end wall 5, completing a rectangular tubular sort of structure. With these hinge connections between the walls, it will be seen that for packing and shipping 45 purposes the elements 5 and 6, with a parallel motion, may be folded down fiat against each other in superposed relationship in the manner of folding boxes to occupy very little space. In such folded conditions, these two end units or 50 supports as a whole preferably nest one upon the other in the bottom of the box or base container l in the manner indicated in Figs. 3 and 5 with, as before stated, the trays on top of them.

To assemble the stand, as in Figs. 1 and 4, the 55 individual trays 2 are first removed without disturbing their contents and laid aside. The end support units are next withdrawn and erected, as in Figs. 6 and 7. One is placed at each end of the base container and they are so proportioned that they fit snugly against the three adjacent walls of the latter in their expanded condition. The front connection wall 9-, however, in each instance is spaced the Width of one of the trays 2 from the front wall of the box, as is, of course, the front edge of the inner wall 6 constituting the hinge [3. The first tray 2 is now wedged in the base container I itself against the connecting walls 9 and with the ends of the tray abutting their respective end walls so that the latter are locked in spaced relationship at the bottom and the end support as a whole is held and made rigid from front to rear by the contact at 9. The other trays are successively thereafter placed in the seats 1-8 of the tier until the latter is completely occupied, as in Figs. 1 and 4, each continuing the same function of spacing the outer walls 5 of the end supports. Opposite each seat of the tier there is punched inwardly from the material of the outer end wall 5 a small tongue l6 that up to this time has been cut through without increasing the thickness of the blank but not displaced. In the process of inserting the trays, as described, these tongues are thrust inwardly from the outside with the fingernail, as shown enlarged in Fig. 8, and made to engage the upper edges of the end walls of the trays so. that they not only cannot be displaced or unseated upwardly. in removing the contents but they form stays or tie pieces counteracting lateral spreading action on the part of the end Walls 5 and the end support units as a whole. There is thus produced an inexpensive light and rigid structure ideal for the purposes described and of an imposing character, having in mind its knock-down condition of Fig. 2 in which it arrived. When emptied, it may be discarded on account of its low cost as an article of paper box manufacture, whereas heretofore the dealer has been usually requested to return more expensive stands for refilling, involving extra shipping expense.

The invention also contemplates the provision of a display card for advertising or explanatory matter, which is shown to be a flat card I! at the top of the stand. This is detachable and packed in the bottom of the box I with the other parts and it is finally placed in the top seat I of the tier occupied by the topmost tray 2 so that it wedges between the latter and the back connecting walls I!) which are extended well above the same for this purpose. The card, of course, projects above the adjacent tray, as shown, and it also fits tightly between the end walls 5.

As brought out, particularly in Fig. 4, each tray 2 preferably slightly overlaps the bottom of the next adjacent individual tray above to resist its forward movement at an advantageous point adjacent to its own fastening tongue I6.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a display carton of the character described, the combination with a base container,

, of two separate end supports each embodying an outer and inner wall forming a unit erected to fit within the base, the inner wall being provided with stepped shoulders constituting a tier of seats and the two Walls being connected at front and rear by transverse walls upon which they hinge to. fold into fiat parallelism and thence together against the bottom of the base container, a plurality of trays occupying the seats of the inner walls with their ends abutting the outer walls to definitely space the end supports but with the upper edges of such trays terminating below the upper edges of the outer walls, and a plurality of inwardly extending fastening devices carried on the outer wall of each end support and engaging over the upper edges of the respective end walls of the trays.

2. A display carton in accordance with claim 1 further characterized by the fact that the fastening devices consist of tongues punched from the material of the outer wall of each end support and engage over the upper edges of the respective end Walls of the trays.

CHARLES L. KANTY. 

